Are you a day trader or active trader? One of the most pertinent question you should ask yourself is - What is your trading cost? Simple question, but not so simple answer. Did you just say - “30 paisa for Delivery and 3 paisa for F&O”. Wait, have you considered all the charges you are paying for executing trades on stock exchange. Quite often you recall and consider only your brokerage cost. But there are so many other charges which are levied on Stock exchange transactions apart from brokerage.

Take Check out the contract note and examine. You will see the following charges in addition to Brokerage charges – Securities Transaction Tax (STT), Stamp Duty and Other Charges. In most of the cases the break up of “Other Charges” is not provided, but note it consists of Transaction Charges and SEBI Turnover Charges. Then there is also Service Tax which is levied on all the charges except STT.

More often than not, when you are taking close intra-day trading calls, where the margins are wafer thin, you should have complete grasp of what your costs are going to be for a particular trade. These additional cost can become the difference between a winning trade and losing trade. Please see below detailed information on statutory charges on stock exchange transactions, other than Brokerage charges.
Securities Transaction Tax (STT)

Option Transactions
Purchase: NIL at the time of purchase of option. However the purchaser has to pay 0.125% of the Settlement Price i.e. (Number of Lots * Lot Size * Strike Price), in case of option exercise
Sell: 0.017% of Premium

Transaction Charges

Equity Delivery Transactions
Purchase: 0.0035% of turnover in NSE and 0.0034% of Turnover in BSE
Sell: 0.0035% of turnover in NSE and 0.0034% of Turnover in BSE

Equity Intra-day Transactions
Purchase: 0.0035% of Turnover in NSE and 0.0034% of Turnover in BSE
Sell: 0.0035% of Turnover in NSE and 0.0034% of Turnover in BSE